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Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to John W. Glenn, January 15, 1870

COLUMBUS, January 15, 1870.

MY DEAR SIR: - I congratulate you very heartily on the result of the election in your State. Having some knowledge by reputation and otherwise of General Hamilton, Governor Pease, and Judge Bell, I felt some doubt when I last saw you as to the true condition of affairs in Texas. I was unwilling to think that those gentlemen intended to abandon the Republican Party. I regret their course. Your opinions and conduct have been fully vindicated by the issue, and I trust your services will secure you the honorable recognition which I am told your friends propose to give you.

Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
MR. JOHN W. GLENN,
        Washington, D. C.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 83

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